House Republicans Vote to Restore Insurance-Industry Control of Healthcare House Republicans Vote to Restore Insurance-Industry Control of Healthcare
The symbolic House debate over healthcare reform misses the point. More Americans favor real reforms that crack down on insurance-industry abuses than favor outright repeal of the ...
Jan 20, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Undoing the ‘Citizens United’ Damage Undoing the ‘Citizens United’ Damage
John Roberts and his allies overreached so brazenly that they have created an opening for genuine reform.
Jan 19, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss Library Man: On Claude Lévi-Strauss
With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.
Jan 19, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
An Atlas of Reckonings An Atlas of Reckonings
The horrors of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database arise through the cumulative weight of its abstract pieces of information.
Jan 19, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn
Invoking Dr. King, Charles Barkley Stands Strongly for LGBT Rights Invoking Dr. King, Charles Barkley Stands Strongly for LGBT Rights
Charles Barkley felt a responsibility to use his platform on a TNT pregame show to speak out for Gay Rights. Given who spoke before him, we should be grateful that he did.
Jan 19, 2011 / The Notion / Dave Zirin
Why Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute Why Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute
There is a revealing new profile of the man who led and personifies modern conservatives’ mastery of TV—Fox News’s Roger Ailes.
Jan 19, 2011 / The Notion / Ari Melber
When Risk-taking Becomes Too Costly: Naomi Klein on Climate Change When Risk-taking Becomes Too Costly: Naomi Klein on Climate Change
Choosing to ignore climate change is the highest-stake gamble we are currently in.
Jan 18, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Rebel Journalist John Ross, the Master of Speaking Truth to Power, Is Dead Rebel Journalist John Ross, the Master of Speaking Truth to Power, Is Dead
American Book Award–winner, chronicler of indigenous struggles and proud radical, Ross wrote his own epitaph: "Life, like reporting, is a kind of death sentence. Pa...
Jan 18, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols
Alien Visitations Alien Visitations
In my childhood, the aliens were commies. Now, it's certainly Muslims or jihadists or Islamo-fascists.
Jan 18, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Does Contraception Count as Prevention? Does Contraception Count as Prevention?
If an Institute of Medicine–appointed committee says yes, health insurance plans could be required to cover birth control free of charge for policyholders.
Jan 18, 2011 / Sharon Lerner